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Introduction: How American politics turned tribal --The parties rise. :Into the Temple of Liberty on the shoulders of slaves: the first political campaign (1800) ;"Keep the ball rolling": the first campaign for the masses (1840) --Crack-up: the Civil War and America's identity. :A fire bell in the night: the path to war (1852-1860) ;Who are we? The Civil War and its legacies (1860-1876) --The Populists and their long shadow. :Populism and the rise of active government (1890-1900) ;The New Deal and the origins of contemporary America (1933-1948) --American politics turn tribal. :The election that remade American politics (1964) ;We win, they lose: tribal politics at high tide (1968-2020) --Conclusion: What next?

"Taken together, these powerful writings will make a major contribution to our understandings of American political thought, American political development, and American political culture. Morone's informative collection will be indispensable for any scholar concerned with American health politics and policy, populism, wealth, power, the left, morality, the Culture Wars, and contemporary social and political issues."-Reviews in History "Morone is a lively writer and shrewd interpreter of political culture. . . . provide[s] an invigorating tour of multiple sites where American identity has been created and recreated over time."-Journal of American History "Who constitute the 'them' outside the American community can differ at any particular time-various immigrant groups, the 'undeserving poor,' alcoholics, smokers, and recently, the obese-though race-based exclusion has been, Morone maintains, the cosmological constant in the American cultural universe. Americans' efforts to separate the culturally normative 'us' from the alien 'them' has resulted in a politics in which power is gained by cultivating fear of one's enemies and frequently enacted prohibitionist public policies that are, according to Morone, 'miserable.'"-Choice.

This prize-winning book reinterprets more than 200 years of American political history as the interplay between the public's dread of government power and its yearning for communal democracy. James Morone argues that Americans will never solve their collective problems as long as they instinctively fear all public power as a threat to liberty. This revised edition includes a new final chapter about contemporary populism, government bashing, and democratic wishes. Winner of the 1991 Gladys M. Kammerer Award "The Democratic Wish merits the highest compliments one can accord a public policy book. It spotlights a problem that can no longer be evaded. And it makes you think."-Alan Tonelson, New York Times Book Review "Morone writes with flair and passion. The fact that he puts forth a provocative argument and provides concise histories of labor, civil rights, and health care politics makes this book especially useful for teaching American politics."-R. Shep Melnick, Journal of Interdisciplinary History "Morone's contribution to our understanding of state building . . . is substantial and profound."-John S. Dryzek, American Political Science Review "This stimulating reinterpretation of American political history will interest both scholars concerned about the past and citizens concerned about the future."-Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. "This is a persuasive, illuminating study in American political ideas and the disappointments of reform."-Dean McSweeney, American Politics Review

Abstract
The health epidemic of 2020 set off a culture war and, like all national crises, revealed exactly who we Americans are. This essay examines Danielle Allen's Democracy in the Time of Coronavirus, a wise, humane, and indispensable guide for negotiating a health pandemic—if not this one, the inevitable next one. It reflects on her five-point guide to handling pandemics, comparing her ideals to the national experience. This essay places Allen's monograph in the context of the larger literature on the coronavirus in America. The essay traces how and why public health fell into the American culture wars, notes the brief glimmer of a genuine social welfare safety net that briefly emerged during the crisis, and summarizes the epidemic's dismal toll on American lives, suggesting why even much poorer nations did a better job of protecting their citizens.

Charge: More than a half-century ago, Richard Hofstadter identified the "paranoid style" as an important feature of American politics. However, in A Lot of People are Saying, Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum argue that a "new" form of conspiracism has begun to infect contemporary American political life. Whereas "old" conspiracy theorists sought hidden evidence to describe why things are not as they seem, Muirhead and Rosenblum argue that purveyors of the new conspiracism make no attempt to substantiate their theories. In light of this fact-free approach, the authors thus warn that contemporary conspiracy theorists pose an unprecedented danger to foundational elements of American democracy, including political parties and knowledge-producing institutions. Moreover, Muirhead and Rosenblum assert, "The new conspiracism moved into the White House with the inauguration of Donald Trump" (p. 1), "the conspiracist in chief" (p. ix). If there is merit to this argument, then the fate of Trump's reelection bid carries monumental consequences for the future of American democracy, as well as the way in which the United States responds to the unprecedented coronavirus pandemic. We therefore asked a range of scholars to comment on Muirhead's and Rosenblum's bold set of claims.

Sixteen avuncular men stare at the camera in the book's epilogue. One clutches a Bible, two smile, 11 are black or Hispanic, and all are among the 127 men and women released from death row after reformers uncovered evidence of their innocence. Frank Baumgartner, Suzanna De Boef, and Amber Boydstun will be speaking for many readers when they start their book by writing simply, "It has been shocking" (p. xiii). The phenomenon is also a stunning public policy mystery.